There are various options in WhatsApp that continue to undergo certain changes to improve interaction between users. The company is putting great effort into including new features that attract a larger audience so that they can take advantage of them. Among all the tools that the messaging application offers, it is already known which of them will be affected by its next addition. Specifically, status updates will have a greater role, thanks to an improvement that will increase the user experience.
Are you one of those who constantly use status updates on WhatsApp? Apparently, not many people do it and the platform is already taking action to change this dynamic. These temporary publications that are shared through the user profile so that any contact that we have added can see them, whether it is a video, an image or even text, have a very similar operation to that of Instagram and Facebook stories, and all of them They are part of the Meta business group.
Although during its first months of launch it has not received much impact, this way of viewing multimedia content seems to have taken a more prosperous direction and from now on WhatsApp wants you to be aware of the status updates section so that you do not lose none by implementing a new feature.
Notifications on new status updates
It is clear that WhatsApp is one of the essential applications to have installed on our smartphones if we want to communicate with our friends and family. There are those who use it simply to chat, but the truth is that some aspects of its interface that make it become a social and interactive space with other people are unknown.
So the launch of a new beta version of WhatsApp for Android 2.24.21.7 has been discovered in which a reminder system through notifications for status updates is beginning to be tested. How does this new form of state alerts work?
As seen on the WaBetaInfo portal, some testers who are already testing this incentive have seen a box appear in the Notifications section that they can activate manually, indicating the possibility of being alerted with occasional notices that remind them of updates. of status that they have not yet seen, with the main objective that they do not miss relevant information.
You will only receive reminders from your favorite contacts
However, this does not mean that you will be notified of each and every status that you have added to your contact list, but rather of those people with whom you are most active or respond to statuses most frequently. The best of all is that this function can be disabled when it best suits you, since you can prefer not to be notified for as long as you consider, although it is important to know that WhatsApp does not allow you to adjust the frequency of reminders, since they are managed automatically.
Therefore, if you have a long agenda added to your smartphone and you want to only have the display of status updates that really interest you, it is a good option to avoid having to deal assiduously with other publications that you consider irrelevant and that may pass perfectly unnoticed.
